Sushmita is someone who believes in her dreams, no matter how strange. An avid reader who loves everything about books -their soft yellowed pages, their crisp parchment-y smell and their ability to take you places without moving an inch.Listening to music is spiritual to her. An ambitious Sushmita knows perfectly well what she wants to be in life; she wants to be happy.

In his TED talk earlier in 2016, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia marvelled about how he, along with his friend Brian Chesky, had stumbled upon the idea of Airbnb. Broke and desperate, they’d found a way …

You’re perched at a great height, locked in an awkward one-sided embrace with the cliff. Your back is exposed to a deadly drop while your callused fingers hold onto the rough ruggedness. One wrong mov…

Applying to universities for higher education is like being in a relationship with a super-possessive person—it demands all your time and attention. The sheer length of each application [10 pages at t…

Pictures via National Geographic. 13th of September 2013. It was just another regular Friday night for Rick Hunter and Steve Tucker- no, they weren’t partying at some club-they were inside the Rising …

Living in the desert can get dreary sometimes. The endless expanse of sand stretching as far as the eye can see, to say nothing of the torturous heat, can drive you crazy. So, what do you do? Forfeit …

Kevin works diligently: 6 days a week, 8 hours a day and 12 months a year. With multiple trips to the coffee machine between work and a cubicle near the window, Kevin is satisfied. It’s not like he ha…

In November 1922, somewhere in Egypt’s famous Valley of Kings, archaeologist Howard Carter descended the steps of a formerly unknown chamber. When Carter announced that he had actually stumbled upon t…

Like most children in India, I grew up with enchanting stories full of gods, demons and kings. I still reminisce about those hot summer afternoons when my grandmother would deftly slice juicy mangoes …

The biggest, the tallest and the richest- Dubai’s never-ending tryst with superlatives makes it a sought after destination. More than one million people visit the Burj Khalifa every year. With its mam…

Palm Jumeira, Palm Jebel Ali, the World Islands; when it comes to islands, Dubai has a long list to boast of. However, the archipelago of artificial islands has, for years, overshadowed what appears t…

We saw it on TV. We heard about it on the Radio. We expressed our shock on social media. We forgot all about it the next day. Shock, horror, pity, sympathy, indifference – the usual cycle of emotions that we experience after a disaster that doesn’t directly involve us. The massive earthquake that literally and […]